Memory and place in participatory planning

Fenster, Tovi; Misgav, Chen

doi:10.1080/14649357.2014.932427

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“…In addition, they showed their willingness to participate and to engage socially through incorporating their own memories, opinions and thoughts into any future urban development plan. The participants' ideas of participation match the concept of participatory planning, which seeks a transformation of power and social relations by shifting the focus away from the dominant planners' professional knowledge to the local community's emotions, opinions and knowledge [62].…”

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Memory for Social Sustainability: Recalling Cultural Memories in Zanqit Alsitat Historical Street Market, Alexandria, Egypt

2020

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Historic urban landscapes (HULs) are composed of layers of imbedded tangible and intangible features such as cultural memories. As the collective memories of city inhabitants, cultural memories can affect elements of social sustainability such as health, well-being, community identity, place perception and social engagement. Utilising the popular Zanqit Alsitat (also known as ‘Zanket el-Setat’ or ‘Zane’t El-Settat’), the only remaining historical street market in Alexandria, Northern Egypt, this research proposes a theoretical model for recalling and continuity of cultural memory features in HULs, which can be used to achieve social sustainability. The research explored the site by applying a qualitative methodological approach through semi-structured in-person interviews in the study site, along with analysis of comments obtained from a research-purposed social media (Facebook) group. A qualitative data management software (NVivo12 programme) was utilized for interpretation and charting the features of stored cultural memories relating to this place. The study indicates that educing and maintaining the features of cultural memory in HULs contributes to social sustainability through its influence on the formation of place identity, sense of place, civic pride and quality of life. This framework for social sustainability in HULs can be applied by engaging social groups through participatory planning.

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Memory for Social Sustainability: Recalling Cultural Memories in Zanqit Alsitat Historical Street Market, Alexandria, Egypt

2020

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“…Working with communities in planning projects in fact means working with a selected number of residents who are committed to the process, are very involved and have the potential to become the neighborhood representatives in future negotiations with the municipality and private developers. Throughout the three-year project, we have identified changes in power relations inside the active team, especially among women -a topic analyzed in a different paper (see Fenster and Misgav 2014). 6.…”

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“…Most identified themselves as lower-middle class. They were involved throughout the three-year project to a varying extent, depending on the topic of interest and on the group's power dynamics (see elaboration in Fenster and Misgav 2014).…”

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Whose Knowledge, Whose Power? Ethics in Urban Regeneration Projects With Communities

Fenster

Kulka

2016

Geografiska Annaler Series B

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This paper examines “moments of residents' awareness” and their ethics in three planning processes, each representing different relations between local and professional knowledge in the course of the three‐year regeneration project in Meonot Yam neighborhood, Bat Yam, Israel. This new terminology emphasizes how nuanced relations between various types of knowledge better explain the challenges faced by planners and residents in regeneration projects. These moments reflect residents' empowerment, challenging the binary view of professional/powerful versus local/ powerless knowledge that characterizes modernist thinking. The paper proposes that in such complicated processes it helps to analyze moments of power/knowledge transformation, from which one can learn that conflict and disagreement, and not only consensus, can lead to residents' empowerment.

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“…With emphasis upon the emotive reactions toward transforming communities, urban growth and rapid neighborhood reconfiguration, we may better understand the force of local tradition and its relationship with material structure influencing the habits, feelings, and remembrances of residents connected to a specific place or space (Halbwachs 1980). Such an approach maintains the capacity to enhance our continued understanding of the dynamic relationship between people and the physical environment, specifically focusing upon the disrupted usage and way of life that guides individuals' interpretation of emerging and contemporary city space (Fenster and Misgav 2014). From perhaps a more practical vantage, the acquisition of oral histories and the conceptual focus on memory and community enables an understanding and critique of contemporary planning policy and practice, as reflections on a former way of life highlight potential disruptions to the use of city space and a differing reading of place that may work to inform the creation of future healthy strategies regarding urban growth and design (Adams 2011;Adams and Larkham 2016;Fenster and Misgav 2014).…”

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Remembering the City: Changing Conceptions of Community in Urban China

Manley

Silk

2019

City & Community

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Adopting complimentary integrative research methodologies, this article examines changing conceptions of community among urban residents within the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. Through local residents’ past memories, “everyday” experiences of (former) urban communities, and reflections on a particular way of life, we focus upon the subjective/affective meanings and memories attached to processes of urban change. We place emphasis on the manner in which residents make sense of sociospatial transformations in relation to the (re)making of community, local social interaction, and a sense of belonging. Discussion centers on the affective and embodied notions of a particular way of life in (older) communities; sensory performances that were deemed difficult to replicate within modern development zones and the broader field of contemporary Chinese society.

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Memory and place in participatory planning

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Memory for Social Sustainability: Recalling Cultural Memories in Zanqit Alsitat Historical Street Market, Alexandria, Egypt

Memory for Social Sustainability: Recalling Cultural Memories in Zanqit Alsitat Historical Street Market, Alexandria, Egypt

Whose Knowledge, Whose Power? Ethics in Urban Regeneration Projects With Communities

Remembering the City: Changing Conceptions of Community in Urban China

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